Territory



(No Model.)

J. M. MORRIS 8v S. J. HARKNESS.

GAR REPLAGER.

No, 473,587. Patented Apr. 26, 1892.

` K lui F mlni /g UNTTED STATES PATENT OEEICE.

JAMES M. MORRIS AND SUMNER J. HARKNESS,` OF SOOFIELD, UTAH TERRITORY.

CAR-REPLACER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N0. 473,587, dated April 26, 1892.

Application filed June 3, 1891. Serial No. 394,969. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom t may concern,.-

Be it known that we, JAMES M. MORRIS and SUMNER J. HARKNEss, citizens of the United States, residing at Scofield, in the county of Emery and Territory of Utah, have invented a new and useful Car-Replacer, ot which the following isa specification.

This invention relates to devices for replacing derailed cars upon the track; and it has for its object to provide a device of this class which shall be simple in construction and thoroughly efficient in operation, which may be used without injury to the track or rollingstock, and which shall admit of the passage of cars over the rails while in position without danger of injury either to the track, the rolling-stock, or the replacing device.

'With these several ends in view the invention consists in the improved construction of the said replacing device, which will be hereinafter fully described, and particularly pointed out in the claim.

In the drawings hereto annexed, Figure 1 is Ia plan view showing a section of a railroadtrack to which our improved replacing device has been applied in position for operation. Fig. 2 is a vertical transverse sectional view taken ou the line 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a vertical transverse sectional View taken on the line 3 3 in Fig. 1. Fig. 4 shows in perspective the replacer claimed and the inner replacer preferably used in conjunction therewith detached from the rails. Fig. 5 is a perspective view showing the keys by means of which the replacers are secured to the rails in position for operation.

Like numerals of reference indicate like parts in all the figures of the drawings.

Our improved car-replacer is adapted to be secured to the outer sides of the rails and used in connection with an ordinary replacing block or piece secured to the inner sides of` the track, as illustrated in the drawings, and specified. The inside piece 1 has downwardly-inclined ends 3 3, which are spread or widened to any desired distance from the rail. The said piece l is provided with a longitudinal groove l1 in its under side adjacent to the rail, adapted to be seated upon the flange of the latter. The said piece 1, the inner side of which at its central portion extends to the Linder side of the head of the rail, is provided at its outer edge with a iiange 5, extending along its entire length. The said piece 1 is also provided in its upper side with grooves or recesses 6 6 to receive the binding clamps or keys 7, which are provided with hooks 8, adapted to take over the head ofl the rail fo which the deviceis to be secured. The fiange 5 has openings or perforations to admit of the passage of the ends of the clamps 7, which at their inner ends are provided with slots l0 to receive the keys or wedges 1l., by means of which the said clamps are secured andthe piece 1 firmly attached to the rail in position for operation. Such specified construction merely defines a preferableform of replacingblock to be used on the inside of the track in conjunction with the outside block claimed and which I will now proceed to describe. The piece 2, which is attached to the outside of the track, as above noted, is composed of a iiange 11n, connecting the independent oppositely-inclined end pieces l2 12, which have downwardlyinclined ends and which are spread outwardly at their outer ends, as at 13, said'end pieces being also fitted between the top and the flange of the rail to which the device is attached. The flange 11 has at its center a slot 14: to admit ofthe passage ot' the clamp 15, which takes over the head of the rail and which is provided with a slot 16 to receive a key or wedge 17, by means of which the device is firmly secured to the rail.

The operation of this device will be readily understood. The wheels ot' the derailed car are guided by the inclined ends ofthe replacing devices so as to clear the heads of the rails and to become properly seated upon the latter.

The device is very simple in construction and may be readily attached to the track in position for operation, the construction being such as to admit of the passage of cars over the track, while the replacing device is in position without injury to the latter.

` Cars may be replaced from either end of the device, and the general construction is simple, durable, effective, and inexpensive.

Having thus described our invention, we claim- In a car-replacing device, the replacer having the independent oppositely-inclined end IOO pieces connected by a longitudinal langel In testimony that We claim the foregoing raised above the level of the rail or track and as our own We have hereto afXed our signa- 1o provided with the longitudinal grooves or retures in presence of tWo Witnesses.

eesses along their inner edges, adapted to t JAMES M. MORRIS.

over the flange of the rail, the intermediate SUMNER J. HARKNESS.

slot between said end pieces, and the hook- Witnesses:

clamp secured in said slot and clamping over T. J. LEWIS,

the rail, substantially as set forth. i W. H. SHERMER. 

